Zoe is on the Air by Clare Hutton

Author:Clare Hutton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2018-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

“Ugh, I’m still so full,” Zoe said an hour later, flopping down on Emma’s bed. The cookies had been terrific: crispy light ginger biscuits, rich shortbreads, and refreshing tiny bites filled with lemon curd. She and Emma had been able to weigh in with total confidence that Uncle Brian should add them all to the afternoon tea hour for guests. But they’d eaten way too many.

After they’d eaten as many cookies as they could possibly hold, Zoe had painted a last few details on Hatshepsut’s cardboard sarcophagus, which was due the next day—the oral report was all prepared—and they’d gone through some advice questions. It looked like Caitlin had gone back over Natalia’s constructions, neatening the corners of the sarcophagus and brushing gold paint around the edges of the tomb itself. It was exactly like Caitlin, Zoe thought, to go back and adjust other people’s work to fit her standards, but Zoe had to admit it looked good. Now she had the comfortable feeling of having met all her responsibilities and having the rest of the afternoon and night guiltlessly free.

“I still think maybe we should pick the question about the parents getting divorced,” Emma said, sitting next to Zoe’s feet and leaning back against the wall. “It’s a really important thing to deal with.”

“Yeah,” Zoe agreed. “But I’m not sure how much advice we can give. Like, talk to your friends, talk to your parents, remember it’s not your fault. Parents getting divorced isn’t something kids can do much about; they just kind of have to deal with it.”

“I guess.” Emma twisted her fingers together. “Still, it’s our last show next week. I want to do something really worthwhile.”

“We will,” Zoe said. She didn’t like to think about the show ending and somebody new taking their place. Eager to change the subject, she rolled over on the bed to gaze out of Emma’s windows.

Emma’s parents had made a cozy apartment out of part of the attic when they’d been renovating Seaview House so that they and Emma would have a space a little separate from the rest of the B and B. One whole side of Emma’s sloping-ceilinged bedroom was windows, looking out over Seaview House’s rose gardens and down to the Chesapeake Bay. In the summer, it was beautiful, full of the sweet fragrance rising up from the garden and with a view of the bay all blue and white and alive with boats. But now the roses were dormant, their bushes looking like just bundles of gray-and-brown sticks, while the bay was nearly empty of boats and reflected the heavy gray of the sky.

“It’s kind of bleak-looking out there,” Zoe observed.

Emma wrinkled her nose. “I know,” she said. “My room was really nice before it got all cold and dismal out, but now it’s pretty depressing. I can’t wait for summer to get here.”

Zoe looked around. She and Natalia had helped Emma decorate her room when their cousin and her family had first moved into Seaview House. It was all done in shades of blue and white, vaguely nautical looking.

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